A few days late updating the blog, but holy shit: the music of the Undisclosed podcast has been nominated at the 21st annual Webby Awards, in the category of Best Sound Design/ Original Music Score in podcasts and digital audio.

It's an honor to be a part of this team and not one that I take lightly. While I've had a blast contributing theme and background music to the show, I can't stress enough that this nomination is not just for me; there are a number of other artists whose music has been featured on the show.

The amazing Blake T. Brady has created a lyric video/visual for Turn the Lights Down. Some of this is some cool "found footage" that Blake dug up; some of it we shot ourselves just on our iPhones, because that's a thing now. I plan to shoot an actual music video for this song, too, and Blake's visuals are very in line with the theme of the song and what that second video is going to look like. Oh, and PS, this will also be shown at shows for live performances of this song.

This is the culmination of several years of my life and kind of a document of some of the best and worst and weirdest times I've ever had, and I'm proud of it and happy it's finally out there. There are about a million obstacles; this almost didn't happen for so many reasons, but I'm so happy it did. I hope you like it.

My new EP, Flares and Signal Fires, will finally be available on November 6. Here is the cover art and track list:

Plan.

Supermoon

Night Maneuvers

Stay Close

Turn the Lights Down

The EP will be released via Polychromatic Records, and will be available here on the website for "pay what you want" with no minimum. It will also be available on iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play and more.

As with the last record, there will be a physical release of this EP as well - for the time being it will only be as a CD; we'll see about vinyl later. Barring any issues at print, CD's SHOULD be available day of release.

If you are Raleigh-local, we are also throwing a release show at Kings the following evening, Saturday, November 7. I will be joined by my friends Youma and Frank Kastle Bin Savage and playing every song from the new EP and a lot more. Click here to RSVP on the Facebook event page, which will have all the details of the show.

Even though this record is only five songs long, it has been a LOT of work and I'm super excited to get it out into the world. Thanks so much for your patience - I hope you agree that it will be worth it.

I started and pretty much finished the music for this one almost two and a half years ago, and it's stuck with me this whole time - I knew it was going to be kinda personal and I guess I was scared to write it and/or had to have to go through the right perfect shitstorm of terrible things to get those lyrics done. I'm proud of this one and I hope you do too.

This is the second (and probably last) single from my new EP, Flares and Signal Fires, which will be out in a few weeks. I will be back Thursday to announce the details of the release including a kickass release show in downtown Raleigh.

You can download it for free, right here at the website. It's also available on a variety of digital platforms including Soundcloud, iTunes/Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play, Amazon and Tidal (if you're reading this, Jack White, I got you.)

This week's episode of the popular podcast Undisclosed: The State v. Adnan Syed (a follow up to massively popular Serial) features some of my music. It's an honor to be part of something like this. If you haven't been listening, get on that immediately! Click here to see me rambling about it with Raleigh's IndyWeek.